Something I found fascinating about Whiffin's timeline and EIC
John apparently did not read Jen's "pull behind me" text until he briefly checked his message at 12.32 after getting out of the Lexus.
What were he and Karen doing in the Lexus from 12.24 - 12.31?
MOO
The idea that JOK was "getting out of the Lexus" at 12:32 is pure conjecture. So is the idea that he and KR were "in the Lexus" from 12:24-31, an idea invented because it bolsters the story the cw wants to tell. But none of that comes from the testimony itself.
Prior to 12:24, Whiffen testified the phone seems to be moving toward the house already (although with the reliability iffiness of the location device, no way to be sure). And then he said explicitly they have no location data whatsoever for the JOK phone between 12:24 and 12:36, with his first explanation for that lack of signal being that the phone was in a building. Although W didn't want to say it, that obviously makes it very possible that JOK is in the house from 12:24-36, and it further opens the door to lots of other scenarios. One would be that he is attacked as he enters at 12:24 or so, and then the checking of the 12:32 text may not necessarily have been done by JOK at all.
Interestingly, his phone location signal doesn't come back on until 12:36, well after KR has left.* Is that coincidence, or was it due to designed actions?
Oh, and it may be so technical a point that it goes everyone's heads, but the EXACT TIME of that text being read at 12:32 actually comes slightly AFTER the latest exact time that the cw can make for the mythical collision. (It looks the same, but it's actually a bit later.) So unless their new story is that KR hit JOK and he's sailing through the air from the vehicle strike that caused no real damage to him, and also checking his phone as he flies, their story has become chronologically impossible. (No, in this case, when they are using precision timing data, and would obviously make the times align if there was any way possible, "close" is not close enough. The cw is using contradictory data, offered by THEIR experts, demonstrably not prioritizing justice, and hoping the jury doesn't get the import.) But if the timeline doesn't fit, the jury must acquit!
WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE US? Based on what we are seeing in the testimony itself, a timeline that does fit looks like this:
1 JOK enters the house around 12:24, is attacked, then taken downstairs where there's no signal. ( Or, enters and opts to go downstairs and is incapacitated there, via some event Proctor didn't care to find out about.)
2 After JOK is attacked, JMc is sent to the window as a lookout, watching to see when KR has gone for sure, and sending various texts and calls to JOK's phone (which the attackers have in their hands) as a cover.
...There's something sketch about the contact at 12:27 -- she denied REPEATEDLY (and INSISTENTLY) in T2 under oath she ever made it, despite the absolute proof from the phone log (that she had personally tried to make disappear) that she did.
3 JMc did make a text at 12:32 to pull behind me, but it was sent as cover and read by someone else not JOK (because KR had to already have been long gone!).
4 The location signal reappears at 12:36, so either they took JOK back outside at 12:36, or they moved him somewhere else in the house, where there happened to be a better signal.
5 A few minutes after the location signal reappeared, starting at 12:41, JMc starts to oddly call/text JOK over and over in a very short time span, as if intentionally trying to create some sort of storyline.
... JMc later tells an insistent and repeated lie that KR was still there at those times she tried to contact his phone starting at 12:41, implying JOK would have been in her car and then struck a bit after 12:45 (to fit the early cw tale of events).
Given JMc's well-demonstrated propensity for creating stories and lies, it would fit to a tee that she was involved in this murder early on, most likely as a secondary accomplice to the coverup. That would help explain why she's so willing to lie and tell whatever new story is needed, from one hearing to the next. The one question we don't quite yet know: if JMc was the killer's Liar for Hire, who's the boss?
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* By 12:36 when the phone location reappears for whatever reason, not only is KR gone from sight, but she's already home by then. Based on distance and time to travel, she must have left about 12:29, but if the streets were slick, perhaps even earlier?
